It's Done
I've done it!
I played most of my 21 new pieces (a few more to do tomorrow then that's it).
The most alarming thing was what happened after I played the set of 12 birthday pieces written for Michael Finnissy. I gestured to the audience (as one does) since I knew all the composers were there except two. Suddenly they all stood up at the same time and advanced on me! I'd never seen such a thing before. Normally there is only one composer to shake my hand but here was a multitudinous horde approaching at great speed!
Actually only one or two had time to shake my hand but they all stood in a (long) line and took a bow.
I hurt my thumb a bit even though I was wearing gloves at the time (it's good to wear gloves to play cluster-glissandos!) and I had the usual Post-Concert Fatigue Syndrome, which is awful crippling pain in my body the next day or just after the performance. I would like it to stop happening, and maybe it will. But luckily you can't have the PCFS without the concert, and it's the concert that's the important part so that's fine.
It's quite good to have concerts with living composers present to hear their own works. It might make one reflect on the situation in concerts where there are no living composers in attendance. E.g. most classical concerts. I certainly feel that in many cases there could be something - or someone - missing. Eh?
I played most of my 21 new pieces (a few more to do tomorrow then that's it).
The most alarming thing was what happened after I played the set of 12 birthday pieces written for Michael Finnissy. I gestured to the audience (as one does) since I knew all the composers were there except two. Suddenly they all stood up at the same time and advanced on me! I'd never seen such a thing before. Normally there is only one composer to shake my hand but here was a multitudinous horde approaching at great speed!
Actually only one or two had time to shake my hand but they all stood in a (long) line and took a bow.
I hurt my thumb a bit even though I was wearing gloves at the time (it's good to wear gloves to play cluster-glissandos!) and I had the usual Post-Concert Fatigue Syndrome, which is awful crippling pain in my body the next day or just after the performance. I would like it to stop happening, and maybe it will. But luckily you can't have the PCFS without the concert, and it's the concert that's the important part so that's fine.
It's quite good to have concerts with living composers present to hear their own works. It might make one reflect on the situation in concerts where there are no living composers in attendance. E.g. most classical concerts. I certainly feel that in many cases there could be something - or someone - missing. Eh?
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